Tutorial in biostatistics. Meta-analysis: Formulating, evaluating, combining, and reporting (multiple letters)

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 753-759

  Carlin, John B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOSTATISTICS; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 0034653365     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000315)19:5<753::AID-SIM427>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Letter

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